The surprise decision to fix the rate of the kyat has harmed the competitiveness of Myanmar’s rice exports, traders say, and orders from abroad are already beginning to decline.
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The surprise decision to fix the rate of the kyat has harmed the competitiveness of Myanmar’s rice exports, traders say, and orders from abroad are already beginning to decline.
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Despite the relative lack of armed conflict in Rakhine State in recent months, tens of thousands of internally displaced people still languish in camps where food shortages are becoming more common.
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Another jump in fuel prices since Russia invaded Ukraine has brought extra suffering for the people of Myanmar as they struggle with economic fallout from the coup and the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The passing of a new financial institutions law in January has raised hopes of a brighter future for the nation’s banks but there are challenging times ahead.
A free ambulance service staffed by dedicated volunteers is providing transport for some of Yangon’s neediest people.
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၂၀၁၂ခုနှစ်၊ ဇွန်လတွင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအစိုးရက ကုလသမဂ္ဂနှင့်အတူ ပူးတွဲလုပ်ငန်းဆောင်ရွက်မှု စီမံချက်ကို သဘောတူလက်မှတ်ရေးထိုးပြီးသည့်အချိန်မှ ယနေ့အထိ ကလေးသူငယ် ၇၄၅ ဦးကို တပ်မတော်က နှုတ်ထွက်ခွင့်ပြုခဲ့ပြီးဖြစ်သည်
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There’s something odd about the Ministry of Rail Transportation’s tendering system and the way it spends taxpayers’ money.
Yangon’s Drug Elimination Museum is cavernous, crumbling and weird, but not that weird.
Michel Fonteyne-Leitao and his wife, Fanny, are the founders of La Terrazza and La Pizza restaurants in Bagan. What he calls his “love affair” with Myanmar began when he met a friendly taxi driver in Yangon more than 10 years ago. He spoke to Frontier about the key to being a successful restaurateur in Myanmar and his passion for Bagan.
In a growing market that’s hungry to try new tech products it’s essential that they are easy to access and make a strong first impression.
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လူမှုကွန်ယက် ဝက်ဘ်ဆိုက်တွေ၊ ဘဏ်တွေကိုအသုံးပြုပြီး လောင်းရတဲ့စနစ်တစ်ခုကို ဒိုင်တွေက တီထွင်ခဲ့ပြီး ဘောလုံးပွဲလောင်းကစားသူများကို ဆွဲဆောင်နေပါတယ်
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